Year: 2008

  • Thanks for your support!

    As many in the online PR community know, PR Week US edition has been running a ‘which is the best PR blog?’ contest for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been in the contest which pits 32 blogs in knock-out…

  • A sign of the times

    During a visit to a Tesco store today, I spotted this sign. You get accustomed to seeing such notices in the electrical products section – all those expensive plasma TVs, computers, etc – DVDs, even the booze department. But in…

  • Is your website green?

    Reading about CO2Stats (via TechCrunch), a company who says it monitors your website’s environmental footprint and purchases renewable energy to neutralize it: […] The carbon footprint of air and automobile transportation is widely known, but few people are aware that…

  • Cut from FIR #371

    Overflow from today’s FIR #371: News That Fits What should PR students be taught about social media? The teacher: Teaching social media; the student: What should we be taught about social media? Listen to this FIR Cut: [display_podcast] Download FIR…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #371: August 14, 2008

    Content summary: Shel’s at the Ragan/eBay conference and on to New Media Expo; PR Week blog contest update; Dan York reports on WordPress 2.6, trusting the cloud, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits – focus…